Gymnosporia^ CelastracecB. 273 



8. GVBXNOSPORZA, W. ^ A. 



Shrubs ; 1. alternate, without stip. ; fl. in crowded cymes ; 

 cal. shallowly 5-lobed; pet. 5; stam. 5, inserted outside and 

 beneath disk ; disk large, tumid, not lobed ; ov. fused with 

 disk, 2-3-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell, style short, 

 stigmas 3 ; fruit a 3-valved, 3-celled, loculicidal capsule, with 

 I or 2 seeds in each cell ; seed with a small basal aril, embryo 

 straight in axis of endosperm, cotyledons flat, broadly oval. — 

 Sp, 60; 16 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Lateral branchlets not spinous ; 1. crenate-serrate . i. G. fruticosa. 

 Lateral branchlets spinous ; 1. entire . . . 2. G. emarginata. 



1. G-. fruticosa, Hk.f. in Thw. Enum. 409 (1864). 

 Catha fi-iiiicosa., Thw. Enum. 72. C. P. 3386. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 619. 



A shrub, 8-10 ft, twigs angular, not spinous, young parts 

 glabrous; 1. i-ii in., spathulate-oblong, tapering to short 

 petiole, obtuse or retuse, finely crenate-serrate except at base, 

 thick, glabrous, reticulate beneath ; fl. \ in., in corymbose 

 cymes shorter than the 1., ped. very slender ; pet. ovate, 

 obtuse ; stam. very short ; stigmas recurved ; capsule small, 

 \ in., roundish-obovoid, apiculate, transversely striate, crimson ; 

 seed globular, shining, scarlet, partially covered by the small 

 white aril. 



Upper zone of moist low country; very rare. Only found on the 

 banks of the Mahaweli, near Navalapitiya, in 1855. Fl. Oct.; yellowish- 

 white. 



Endemic. 



2. G. einarg*inata, Hk.f. in Thw. Enum. 409 (1864). 



Fl. Zeyl. n. 437 i^Eiionymoides). Cat ha einarginata, G. Don, Thw.. 

 Enum. 72. • C. P. 1235. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 621. 



A shrub, with numerous long, rigid, divaricate, zigzag- 

 branches, set with short, straight, lateral, horizontal twigs 

 spinous at the point ; 1. scattered on the branches, usually 

 fasciculate on the spinous twigs, \-2\ in., usually oblong- 

 spathulate but varying from narrow-lanceolate to rotundate, 

 very obtuse or retuse, entire, very coriaceous, glabrous, shining: 

 above, paler beneath ; fl. | in,, in dense, sessile or very shortly 

 stalked, cymose clusters on the spinous twigs or immediately 

 above them, ped. long, very slender, glabrous ; cal.-lobes very 

 obtuse, thin, ciliate; pet. triangular-lanceolate, subacute, often, 

 reflexed ; disk very broad and tumid ; stam. nearly as long as 



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